Buckinghamshire's Lost Railways Author: Keith Scholey Price: £7.50

By the 1850s major railways such as the Great Western and the London & North Western ran across the peripheral parts of Buckinghamshire, but its large agricultural centre, dotted with tiny hamlets and small market towns, had still to be penetrated. This all changed between the 1850s and '70s when branch lines such as the Wycombe and the Aylesbury & Buckingham railways linked with the LNWR and the GWR, and later developments such as the joint Great Central and Great Western Railway completed the picture. As with most parts of the country, rural Buckinghamshire became a thing of the past as the growth of the railways inevitably encouraged industry and commerce, but this golden age was to last just over a century. By the 1960s cutbacks had caused virtually all of the old branch lines to disappear. Containing fifty-two photographs, dating from the late nineteenth century through to the 1950s, this book tells whole story. Photographed locations include: Fenny Stratford, Verney Junction, Castlethorpe, Brill, Cheddington, Aylesbury, Calvert, Padbury, Buckingham, Radclive, Fulwell & Westbury, Waddesdon Road, Westcott, Wotton, Wood Siding, Quainton Road, Bradwell, Great Linford, Newport Pagnell, Olney, Swanbourne, Winslow, Marsh Gibbon & Poundon, Waddesdon Manor, Bledlow, Towersey, Granborough, Akeman Street, Loudwater, West Wycombe, Haddenham, and Ludgershall.

ISBN 184033 275 1 48 pp

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